About 2 years ago now I started recording my body weight.... recently I did a little more analysis on this data, and it turned out to be very interesting!! :-)
I ate thorium in my childhood and I don't need to eat anything else ever, just walk around a bit in the sun and for drinking I have a self filling water bottle that sustains me.
@MichaelKingsfordGray you are forgetting the 3 million dollar kickstarter to develop a device that is thin enough fit just about anywhere, bendable, able to hold on to tiny carbon particles. And the best thing, it is made only from a renewable resource, Wood, so it's gonna be super cheap to make! I call it, the Hyper tablet. And of course another one million dollar kickstarter for the device to distribute those particles onto the hyper tablet. I present to you: the hyper stylus! Just like the hyper tablet it's made from the renewable resources wood, and it can even be equipped with advanced technology to remove the carbon particles without damaging the hyper tablet! If you back 200$ or more, you get to be one of the first people to get to buy the hyper remover accessory! Of course, make sure to save up a little for our upcoming accessory, the hyper-straigtener, which will guide your hyper stylus to make lines that are so straight, they could have been drawn by a computer, and using the lightweight and durable material plastic, we can even make it transparent, that way, you can see your work on the hyper tablet underneath the hyper straightener. we already have plans to develop this device even further, into the hyper measurer, which can not only help you make your lines super straight, but it also uses hyper ink to display lines on the device to let you know exactly how long your line is!
I think sending them to Mars would definitely be preferable to having them here on Earth. Not to mention the benefit of all the bullshit they produce... it could be used as an additional fuel source for the mission.
Perhaps North Korean leader Kim is a breatharian since he never has to use the bathroom. However the evidence suggests otherwise. Let's just say his gut holds more food than Thunderfoots.
My doctor advised me not to diet, but to make minor adjustments to my eating habits little by little over time. It's worked for me. I'm down about 15 pounds since last October, and I don't feel like I've been depriving myself at all.
As a believer in science, I came up with my own diet; lost 10Kg in 10 weeks, a friend does it right now, he lost 5 Kg in 3 weeks. (I did it without exercise). Not feeling hungry, 1000 calories a day... he wouldn't wanna hear about diet throughout his life, he wouldn't do it if he felt hungry all day...
Diet is the accumulation of all things an organism consumes. "Dieting" is just changing your diet, by changing eating habits the only way you lost weight is either more energy expedure or less consumption, in your case consumption et voila you dieted. 😅
Exactly what I've been doing myself, down 5kg (~10lbs) just by making little adjustments. Measuring what I'm eating and keeping track have also really helped, I've become a lot more aware of when I'm eating not out of hunger but out of boredom or just having food near. Plus I'm still splurging on occasional bottles of wine or fish and chips, I'm just being aware of how many calories that is and making up for it in other ways.
It is basically a matter of habit, you are correct. Once you get used to a new diet, its actually pretty hard to go back to your old one, even if your old diet involved eating the "good stuff". What Thunderf00t talks about in this video, is true: When your body adjusts and gets used to the new diet, then going back to stuffing yourself with food is pretty hard. I've estimated that I eat about 30% less than I used to, and not only did that bring my weight down to normal levels (not overweight) but also, I cannot (even if I try) eat as much as I used to.
That's why it's better to eat a bit less (like 100g per day) and keep doing it for several months. It will become a new habit without too much hassle. Most diets on the other hand, make you lose much more weight, in a short time (like several kilo's in 1 or 2 weeks). After that, you feel like you suffered enough and go back to your original intake or maybe even more to reward yourself for your austerity. This causes the jojo effect.
The biggest obstacle is that you really start to miss pasta. But there's good news. You can make pasta with Zucchini noodles, and should definitely add a fatty cut of ground beef.
The big helper in that has always been to never take a diet you couldn't live with. A super hard core crash diet of nothing but carrots and vitamins might make you lose weight like crazy... but your not going to stick to it. Just like those weight loss meals that cost a fortune. No one is going to eat that for the rest of their life, so when their diet ends they have nothing to fall back on but their "normal meals" and thus gain it back. For me I just looked at what ate, how many calories it had and what I could live without the easiest. For me it was soda, and to a lesser extent sugar in general. Soft drinks generally have 140-180 calories per can and you can easily drink several a day. 500 or more empty calories per day because you had 3-4 cans of Pepsi is a joke and an amazing way to cut back. Drinking nothing but water isn't easy at first but honestly you get used to it.
Pretty much the advice my Dr. has provided for years. Eat less calories, and exercise more. It's not the knowledge that's lacking, it's simply the willpower to follow through.
It turns out overpopulation is deceptive, it is mostly an artifact of an aging population. In fact, young people are breeding slower than ever. Did you know the average fecundity in Japan is 1.4. ONE POINT FOUR. At that rate, the population will go down by 30% every generation. And it's less than 2 in many first world countries, including USA. Overpopulation isn't actually a problem in the first world, it's only in the 3rd world shitholes that it is. And the #1 thing preventing overpopulation is...... feminism. It teaches women to hate men, and men to stay TF away from women.
I know you're just trying to be funny, but please get your head out of the asshole of Agenda 21 Georgia Guidestones, before you become so full of shit, the smell will never leave you.
I cannot express how much I love these types of videos from you. My wife finally got around to watching one with me, and it "happened" to be this one. I've been trying to get her to stop doing weird diets or celebrity diets for years now. One video... In one single video, you not only proved my point, which to be fair was yours exactly, and got her to concede to try a more normative and easy to budget diet plan of literally just eating a little less. Thank you. Truly. Thank you.
Keep in mind that the first couple of weeks are the most turbulent, and the ones that are the hardest. The important thing is to keep track of what you're eating, and how much calorie intake that is. It doesnt even have to be exactly the same every time....
Ive done a rather more intense/extreme version of this, losing about 38kg in the last 6 months or so. It was more along the lines of starvation of solid food, alot of water and suplements so as to give the body what it needs aside from fat and sugar - which it obviously had to take from reserves. It worked well, coupled with alot more exercice than I did before. It´s fun to see this new video on the subject, as the initial ones you did a while ago were part of my inspiration for doing this - especially on the "how". I have to agree whole heartedly : weight loss is a simple matter, if not an easy one. It depends solely on personal willingness and self discipline over an extended period of time and most people could do it - you know, unless some major health problems prevent exercice.
OMFG! Thank you Thunderf00t!!! I was forgetting about my gut capacity when working on weight loss, I couldn't figure out why the bloddy hell I was dieting yet having a daily flux of multiple lbs/kg. I understand why you weigh once or twice a day and graph it. This is an absolute game changer and I'm currently printing out a blank graph for my wall to start tracking my progress. Thanks for helping me understand this in real terms
he says nothing about removing carbs entirely & just doing a paleodiet. eating meat & greens exclusively will make you lose lots of weight & you dont even have to cut down on the amount.
Everyone is different because of the nature of your metabolism and your appetite but for me it's easy to lose weight. A few months ago I used to be obese (BMI over 31) and all I did was eat only food with a low glycemic index(the only exception was 2 bananas a day) and walked over 5 miles a day. I lost 14 kilos in 2 months just like that.
That's a very efficient way. If you only eat low GI food then it really will get reduced to calories in vs calories out, because the lack of insulin in your blood will allow for fat to be released and consequently burned. (Well, assuming you also get some sleep and don't stress much.)
Metabolism is only one part of losing weight, it might be easier with higher metabolism but at the same time with a low metabolism you can still lose weight.
hay, thanx. im almost 60yrs old and a little (lot) over weight. this has given me something to think about as well as some useful info to work with. cheers, mate. and keep makin vids.
This is very good information. And a very good way of displaying it. I've dealt with weight issues for most of my life. And now, getting older, i see the weight starting to creep up again. If you'll pardon the expression, this video is certainly food for thought. Thank you.
I always found it funny when people of a certain demographic say stuff like "I've lost half a pound this week" because it's a meaningless statement for the reason you allude to here - gut capacity and more specifically the time interval between taking a crap and weighing yourself to benefit from the instant "weight loss" that results.
CHL! Make some more videos please! Any subject; your direct, fact based analysis (well, and slightly snarky attitude towards ignorance), is always appreciated!
You mean real life supersedes entertaining the the masses on drool tube? Bollocks!HaHa, All good, love your stuff WHENEVER you get around to it, thank you:)
In other words: eat less and exercise more and you will lose weight. Although, I have to admit, having that message expressed in a 10 minute scientific explanation with graphs was very satisfying.
Its not that you should simply eat smaller meals, but that you should physically eat less meals. Like 1 meal a day. Simply eating smaller meals will cause that gnawing hunger pain most report on their diets, and causes the rubberband effect. (A chemical in the stomach is responsible for the hunger feeling, and is typically absorbed by food or simply not produced if the stomach doesn't feel like it should be expecting to eat at that moment. Eating smaller meals leads to an imbalance where the chemical builds up overtime.)
I have a very similar experience! I could eat anything and never put on a pound...up until about a year ago (which was 33 for me). I have been between 150 and 155 lbs since the beginning of high school. BUT over the past year I've noticed my weight slowly creeping up and I weighed myself at 162 lbs about a month ago, which makes me feel so depressed. I exercise and I don't eat really bad but now I have to make sure I exercise and make sure I watch EVERY god damn calorie. This will be how the rest of my life goes...which is so depressing. I'm back at 160 and hopefully I can lose 10 more lbs to get back to my target but it feels like I will never be able to maintain that unless I'm a calorie Nazi. :(
Erwin Rommel 5’10” and that weight is not low heh. My BMI is currently 22.2. Here is the info for my TARGET: “Height: 5 feet, 10 inches Weight: 150 pounds Your BMI is 21.5, indicating your weight is in the Normal category for adults of your height. For your height, a normal weight range would be from 129 to 174 pounds.”
Make life easy for yourself, stop counting calories, and completely cut out CARBS and CARB SUGARS/SUGARS! I literally would pile on weight if I ate 'regular' food that had flour and sugars in it. I literally have butter in my coffee, full fatty organic meats, veggies (that are low in carb/sugars), cream cheese, eggs, etc etc and still lose un needed fat while piling on muscle. Literally the easiest diet I've ever been on.
Thanks this is really useful, I've been trying to diet but always get discouraged when my weight fluctuates hopefully next time I will remember what I learnt here.
the best way to lose weight is to stop eating whatever gets you most of the calories until you are within the recommended intake, its that simple and people still cannot understand it.
Nor does Thunderf00t. He thinks you can lose weight on a McDonalds diet, you just need smaller portions. People can put themselves through hell and ignore hunger for a few months but long term this won't work for the vast majority of people. He's lost 6kg, still has an awful body composition but think's he's qualified to give advice.
@Drunken Hobo Where did I say it was hard? I'm saying if you want to lose weight don't eat McDonalds, eat food which will fill you up with fewer calories. No credible dietitian will tell you "carry on eating complete shit, just eat less of it"
Will power doesn't really work either. It takes lifestyle changes. Plant foods are lower in calories and higher in "bulk" 400 calories of plants fills up your stomach setting off stretch receptors. 400 calories of say KFC doesn't fill it up half way. So you eat twice as much (now 800) to get those receptors to tell your brain you're full. Oil is terrible. 120 Cal per tbl. It's in a sense calorie restriction but it comes with the territory when your food is calorically dilute. You must eat more when eating mostly/only plant foods.
For me, dieting has come down to realizing that my eating was not primarily hunger based. Instead eating was (is) configured around time based reward entitlements. Let’s acknowledge that eating is a pleasant, and therefore rewarding experience. At certain times of the day I am entitled to certain rewards. If I do not get those rewards in sufficient quantities, I feel deprived. I am not feeling deprived in the sense of starving or even particularly hungry... instead I feel deprived of the amount of reward I am entitled to on the schedule to which I am accustomed. I do not eat more because I am at risk of starvation. I eat more because it is a self indulgent habit. And, imo, it helps to identify over eating as what it is: self indulgence, rather than a natural expression of the need for self sustenance.
Awesome as always my friend. I would like you to dive into the intermittent fasting protocol for eating (time restricted eating). A video from you on the subject would be epic.
Remember that losing weight doesn't mean you are healthy. You also need to get all of your micronutrients (fe mg etc) and also macronutrients (protein fats and carbs). Losing weight is only a part of being healthy.
Perhaps you should write a weight loss book that focuses around the science of weight loss rather then fad diets. Maybe research the Psychology needed for the discipline to stick to it, might be an interesting alternative then hur dur "Eat only onions for two months! " diets.
You're not taking your expenditure into account. For example, if you reduce total caloric intake but consistently have plenty of insulin in your blood (for example if you eat many small meals per day) your fat storage cells won't release fat into the bloodstream, so you're starving your body of fat, so your rest metabolic rate slows down, making you feel weak, hungry, and cold (because your brown adipose tissue shuts down), and also causes gluconeogenesis from protein. OTOH studies have consistently shown that if you have normal caloric intake on some days and zero caloric intake on other days your rest metabolic rate stays high while your body uses your fat reserves on the fasting days. So yes, it's calories in vs calories out, but depending on the rate and kind of calories in that calories out value will change and also drastically change the effect on your body.
@@TylerMillsftw Exactly. Fat burning, as well as other metabolic processes, are heavily hormone-driven, and food, sleep, exercise, stress, etc. will affect those hormones. So while "calories in vs calories out" is factually correct it's almost irrelevant in practice since it ignores the factors which are actually relevant for the issue in question.
@@Wesleym134 Periods of zero caloric intake is intermittent fasting. As long as your fasting period lasts past your glycogen stores emptying and intramuscular triglyceride depletion you're gonna burn fat. A ketogenic diet would help a lot there, since it will keep insulin levels low and glycogen stores low, leading to faster switching to burning stored fat sooner in your fasting period, and therefore more fat-burning per fasting time. (And it'll keep ghrelin production low, so you won't feel so hungry.)
If I end up expending more calories because I have stuffed my face with more greens, I don't mind. That's just more weight sliding off my waist. I always feel healthier when I am at a deficit.
Nice, thorough analysis! One thing I would add though, is that unlike fats and other calorie sources, carbohydrates replenish muscle glycogen and cause you to retain water. Because of this, cutting carbs appears to cause greater weight loss than cutting fat or general calories, especially in the short term. This is where we got the low carb diet crazes like Atkins and keto.
Look into the ketogenic diet, it's a very interesting topic. There's been people who have gone months or more without eating, but they basically were really fat and burning that fat for fuel. "What I've Learned" is the channel where I found out about it, I suggest you to check it out.
@@-ring-a-ding-my-dingaling Only if you ignore the actual science and a million or so years of evolution, then yeah, Ketogenic diets and ketosis is obviously a fad
@@gug1970 You mean the actual science that demonstrates the only dietary intervention to ever reverse atherosclerosis is a lipid elimination diet and the millions of years of evolution that culminated in the agricultural era of grain production, vital to the creation of modern society?
@@-ring-a-ding-my-dingaling So your argument that we've been eating grains for 10,000 years means that evolution was wrong and that we would not have had 'modern society' (whatever that means) without eating processed grass ? correlation is not causation. Apart from your unsourced assertion that something cures something, in what way does this disprove that ketosis (which is what a ketogenic diet aims to trigger) is required to actually burn body fat ? There are plenty of recent actual studies that shows this. if you're just going to spout random shit ( "keto is a fad, pretty shit"), please do it at someone else, i'm busy. If you think eating fat clogs your arteries (because you had half a conversation in your head and then decide to spout "atherosclerosis" at me) then there doesn't appear to actually be any evidence. Ancel Keys' lipid hypothesis was a fraud and has been shown up as such but hey, go argue with some experts on these matters if you like.. www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/popular-belief-that-saturated-fats-clog-up-arteries-plain-wrong-say-experts/
@@gug1970 jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/188274 pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1873/6a96956fdcda27c289186b587fa84cbb623f.pdf www.hindawi.com/journals/cric/2015/978906/abs/ www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987718309149 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1559827615579180 www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466936/ books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ocSMDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=esselstyn+atherosclerosis+reversal&ots=PS6adtsfb8&sig=eH5l1RR_Zlspuh4hFiGDU8oDxpA#v=onepage&q=esselstyn%20atherosclerosis%20reversal&f=false academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article-abstract/67/5/255/1825526 Time to get reading, kiddo.
I've been doing the intermittent fasting protocol for a little over a year and i've lost 20kg without restricting calories. The idea behind that is related to what you said at the end of the video. When you are in a fasting state you burn all the sugars stores in your body and after some time, you start burning fat. So there is this guy on UA-cam that eats one meal a day, like 4000 calories each meal and he doesn't gain weight. Cheers my friend thanks for all the educational videos you rock.
There is a quick fix. One meal a day diet. I'm losing 1lb a day. Lost 26kg so far. Was 96kg, now 70kg. 5-10% carbs (greens only), 20% protein and 70% fat. We're not talking rabbit food either, we're talking steak, bacon, fried mushrooms, avodacos etc
@@pumpkin6429 lol no, just no. Do you think I'm going to go back to eating a pizza every day? Fuck that shit. I'm never going to allow myself to get fat again. groceries.asda.com/product/takeaway-pizza/chicago-town-limited-edition-takeaway-large-sticky-sweet-cola-bbq-stuffed-crust/1000040205139 these are almost irresistable. Almost.
@@pumpkin6429 "once you're done" That's the real problem. Most people don't understand that a diet is something you have, not something you do. You'll never be "done".
Thank you so much thunder. I was actually able to use my height and metabolism to lose a ton of weight. I went from 244 in june to 214 in august. I really do appreciate that. As i was losing weight for the air force. I know you won't see this but i really do want to you to see you helped someone bettered themselves.
I did exactly the same thing (I even made graphs in charted my theoretical progress vs. actual progress) about 10 years. I did 2 lbs per week for about 9 months keeping track of all of my activities and food intake. I went from 230 lbs to my current weight of 160 lbs. and I've kept it off for almost 10 years.
Super Size Me was what primarily started me down the road of skepticism. I realized he was basically lying throughout the video and that someone both could and would make an entire "documentary" with the intent to deceive with no desire at all to be informative or truthful; just a pre-determined agenda to promote.
Japan also taxes people who have too large waistbands. They already have an issue with an ageing population, they don't need the issues with an expanding population too.
Awsome video. I can confirm everything here with solid anecdotal evidence. :) I went from 80kg to 65kg in about two years with watching my weight and calory intake. That's it. Everything else I did before to reduce my weight was a total failure, or a short-term small weight loss.
After watching your video series on losing weight, it put me into the right mindset to start my own diet. Managed about 12kgs in 8 months. It was kinda stupid how simple it was, I wasn't even eating "diet foods" rather just the right amount of junk food to keep loosing weight daily but always ended my day with a smile and a beer. I didn't add more exercise, already did the equivalent of roughly 1.5h of walking a day to commute, but even with that I never lost weight until I addressed the caloric intake. I was eating too much of the right stuff for 10 years, gaining roughly 2kgs a year when I should have been eating just enough of the bad stuff instead! Back to eating like a sensible person, but I have noticed that I don't eat as much as I did before the diet. and weight has been stable for about 6 months now. Figure I'll try and keep things stable for a year, and then try and reach my "ideal" weight by losing 12 more kgs.
@Doug Culpepper hey DUMBASS the mass of chocolate bars candies and other products sold by weight has GONE DONE SIGNIFIGANTLY in recent decades. How arrogant of you to assume someone is complaining that a 50g snack is small, when they are really saying the standard now (in canada anyway) is 30g. So enjoy YOUR OVERSIZED CANDY BAR YOU ARROGANT FAT FUCK.
Fasting worked for me, I read the Fasting Cure by Upton Sinclair, then Dr. Jason Fungs work, fast way to lose and keep it off for good. I don't have the self control to calorie count/restrict, but only taking the bare essentials leaves me not hungry. Edit: I am not talking about breatharianism, I drink water, salt, potassium, magnesium and a multivitamin.
I did the same but my will got only to day 5 due to the fact that I live in a household. I then took the weight back but decided to get to the gym, eat good and the right amount and I since then have lost 25lbs (~13kg) and I'm now halfway to my goal. My mother has found herself to want to loose weight but she has been for year in the "diet loop" of these programs that sell dumb stuff that dont makes you loose weight. Its really unfortunate but it just how it is.
Fasting is a fancy term for starving yourself. I never understood what’s so hard about just cutting your food completely, it’s so much easier than eating less. If you’re constantly hungry you get used to it and don’t feel it anymore, if you eat a little you’re gonna want more. Why don’t people understand this? I also fail to see the negative medical effects of burning fat through starvation, if you take your vitamins and minerals in pills there really isn’t anything you’re doing wrong.
@@JL-dance You never get used to being hungry, when you fast over time your body produces less ghrelin, a hormone that makes you feel hungry. It isn't that you get used to it, you biologically feel less hunger.
yo boi jonx I’m no expert, but you don’t just burn away fat while fasting. Your body needs protein in addition to vitamins and minerals, so starving yourself for extended periods of time will certainly have an effect on your muscles as your body will break them down back into useable amino acids.
@@jcampbell9340 That is true. However, so does other forms of caloric restriction. The worst thing you could do is to eat lots of small portions frequently. Then all your non-intake energy will come from muscles. There are ways to limit muscle loss. The best is hGH production. Fasting in itself will cause radically higher spikes of hGH production. Exercise will also increase hGH production. Furthermore, fasting will promote autophagy, which also helps reduce muscle loss, as well as countless other benefits.
From reading the title in my notification list ("measuring my digesting system" or something) I went to the video expecting you doing some kind of experiment like eating and drinking colored food or something. Then I was disappointed while watching the first half of the video thinking you might just do an theoretical estimation with some formula. The last part of the video I got amazed. The method and result were really interesting. Great video!
@@palebluedot7435 Sure continue to research. But only those who agree with other scientists get to keep doing research. Others are branded as heritics and climate change deniers. ua-cam.com/video/m3hHi4sylxE/v-deo.html
@@my3dviews not really the oil industry spends. Millions on that yet not a single paper by them ON THE SUBJECT has been approved by peer review. When you deny peer review you need to activly disprove something they said and they can reply. If you can disprove climate change oil companies will pay you millions Um i guess scientist dont like being Rich they only want thousands not millions
All you need is to go into ketosis, native Americans stayed in a ketosis diet their entire lives which is one of the reasons they were so healthy in comparison.
Yeah, go ketosis - or in other words go low level acidoses- and enjoy renal failure and clogged arteries over the long term. Great idea. Just cut out glycogen, the primary energy source of all living organisms on this planet. Or go with the scientific consensus and go for a more sensible diet full of fruits, vegetables, unsaturated fats and resistant fibrous starches, while limiting refined flours and sugars and saturated fats.
In my experience of weight loss I found the opposite. While the food cravings and the feeling of just wanting to give up are the strongest in the first week or two, you also see the biggest results. By simply being more active and cutting most sugars out of my diet (no more soda, candy etc) I lost about 5 pounds within the first month. Since then it's been a slower grind and the urge to just give up is much higher. I have since lost over 30lbs in the last year, but have more than 40 to go before I hit my medical "ideal weight". As for weight fluctuations I find it most accurate to do it every day at the same time. Ideally in the morning after you void your body, but before you eat breakfast. That way your as empty as you can be naturally and you don't have to worry about a heavy meal sitting your stomach or your intestines being backed up. It's surprising how one trip to the bathroom can cause you to lose 2-5lbs depending on just how long you've held it.
Adapt to deep ketosis, reduce insulin, fast for days at a time while maintaining Na and K concentrations. Hunger response blunted, hydration maintained, ketones burned. Less stressful than extended caloric restriction in my experience. Hormonal control is key. You cant beat thermodynamics, the breatharians are insane ;).
1800-ring-a-ding -my-dingaling just because it's a fad, does not mean that it doesn't work. I've seen a lot of truck drivers put on this diet lose tens to a hundred pounds without excerise.
@@fmccloud Exercise isn't necessary to lose weight. Caloric deficit is what causes weight loss. All these people you know were doing was maintaining a calorie deficit, if you eat 3,000 kcals and do nothing, keto or no, you won't lose any weight. Add the fact that the ketogenic diet is often based on atherogenic and cancer causing foods and you have a terrible diet only popular because it encourages you to eat poorly.
I enjoy your content thunder but I dont agree your 'McDonalds diet" was equivalent to SuperSizeMe and disagree when you make comparisons. You state that you ate McDees whenever possible. This is not the same as exclusively eating mcdees. You supplemented your diet, he (supposedly) didnt. Certainly the documentary had incentives to be entertaining and cater to people's biases to sell movies. But he clearly had a noticable change during the documentary that is indisputable. Dont make videos supporting weight loss and in the same video say McDonald's is fine. Its shit food full of salt.
Me and my husban started dieting new years day. This is so helpful cuz this one month has been tough. I ate one donut the first week and one small slice of apple cake this last week of the month. Feb. Is her so now its time to be really strict and not slide back. We will be eating less and working out all this year. Plan breaks are our 3yr wedding anniversary and my Nov. Birthday. Fingera crossed!!!
It's not that you lose appetite, but rather that when the body ramps up the fat burning it's getting quite a lot of energy from that and reduces the production of ghrelin, which is a hormone causing the feeling of hunger.
But our bodies are not thermodynamic engines. We cannot escape the laws of physics, but the problem is that people think that by doing fad diets they will lose fat weight; however, why would our bodies do that? There are many other places from where we can lose weight: lose water weight, bone density, muscle mass, and finally the fat tissue, which is what we all want to shed off.
If the diet is one that allows fat to be released from the storage cells into the bloodstream and then get oxidized then that diet will probably make you lose fat if your caloric intake is low enough.
I think that's the idea of the keto diet. You cut out most of the carbs so the body has to make it's own carbs from your fat intake. This ramps up your bodies ability to convert fat into energy, which as well directly helping you use up your fat also allowing you to power your body and especially your brain when your calorie intake is low.
@@PayneMaximus You misunderstood me. I'm not uncertain about it, but saying that several factors are involved here, so it also depends on what you eat and how you exercise, sleep, etc. Any diet that fulfills the basic criteria will probably work, and the ones that fill all criteria will certainly work.
Two years ago when I turned 26 I started to get a little overweight and I literally did this. Calculated my caloric intake and compensated for it, except I lost 30 lbs in 3 months, after which I borderline struggled to maintain and continued losing. Its like once I stopped eating as much, its almost like my stomach shrank and I physically felt like I could not eat more than I had been accustomed to during the "diet". Today eating a normal amount of food just feels normal. Eating a shit ton of food does not feel pleasant by any means. My point of this that one can over do it. What became difficult in the first couple weeks ultimately became way too easy.
I think the MOST surprising thing I learned while dieting is that I can generally eat whatever I want, just in the appropriate amounts. Also that kitchen scales are your friends.
I'm not overweight but I started keto/low carb as an experiment. I've stuck with it for 6 months now. It's amazing how moody I would get in the past when I was running on carb intake and hadn't eaten in a 6 hours. Now I can be hungry and still have focus/energy, and avoiding unhealthy food feels effortless. I've stayed about the same weight but put on more muscle.
I have never followed a diet, but sporting has helped me a lot... _183cm (~6ft) male_ 2009: ~70kg (~154lbs) (~3h/week tennis) (age 18) 2010: ~72kg (~159lbs) (~3h/week tennis) 2011: ~77kg (~170lbs) (couch potato) 2012: ~83kg (~183lbs) (couch potato) 2013: ~86kg (~190lbs) (couch potato) 2014: ~90kg (~198lbs) (couch potato) 2015: ~98kg (~216lbs)(couch potato) 2016: ~86kg (~190lbs) (~5h/week running) 2017: ~72kg (~159lbs) (+7h/week inline skating, bad knees for running so had to find another sport) 2018: ~75kg (~165lbs) (~5h/week inline skating) 2019: ~77kg (~170lbs) (~3h/ week inline skating, due to un-payed over-hours at work) 2020: ~74kg (~163lbs) (~6h/ week inline skating, changed workplace because my previous employer didn't respect my personal time) (age 29) Just give it some time...
I've found that the most effective way for me to cut down on daily calories was to simply replace bread/rice/pasta/potatoes with tons of greens. It sounds obvious but after sticking to it for a week it's pretty easy to keep up with. The hardest part is when I play a lot of sport. Trying to find the balance of eating enough for my body to repair but not overdoing it
It is interesting and very entertaining to see what happens if you apply a scientific attitude to someting I don't care really much about.Small things happening, great results - at least for your health.
To be honest.. persistence is the driving force in almost all changes. It's the same for exercise, for changes of habits, dealing with addiction, learning, meditation.. It's all about what you do and KEEP doing for a long period of time
Interesting stuff, TF! Must concede that metabolism is a bit trickier than that, however. You somewhat alluded to it when you mentioned your magnesium levels likely being low (4-6oz red meat once or twice a week will solve that). I've attempted to explain it like this: you can deliver coal to the power plant. If you deliver more than is needed then it has to into storage (i.e., weight gain). Alternately, you can just burn more coal off (exercise). Thing is, once you've build those storage areas, the boss is going to want to keep them stocked up. So a good change would be to ensure that you are removing the storage, which can often be hidden as it is within the plant and not outside. This is where fasting rather than caloric restriction plays a substantial difference.
Pretty much sums up what I've been learning for the past 6 months. The only way I've found that I can lose weight is by weighing myself regularly and tracking my calorie intake. I've been able to go from 320 lbs. to 250 lbs. today and I'm still going!
I ate thorium in my childhood and I don't need to eat anything else ever, just walk around a bit in the sun and for drinking I have a self filling water bottle that sustains me.
And if that runs out, there's always the Creationist diet of Manna rained down from Heaven by God himself.
@@EmeraldEyesEsoteric Or bread and wine
Bruce Wayne I have studied many years in school and I can tell with at least a 90 % confidence interval that you’re lying Bruce!
That's not surprising. It is one of the densest materials, after all.
U can have the self filling water bottle powered by solar freakin roadways!
"Weight Loss Experts Hate Him!"
"See how this man used Thermodynamics to get fit!"
@MichaelKingsfordGray you are forgetting the 3 million dollar kickstarter to develop a device that is thin enough fit just about anywhere, bendable, able to hold on to tiny carbon particles. And the best thing, it is made only from a renewable resource, Wood, so it's gonna be super cheap to make! I call it, the Hyper tablet. And of course another one million dollar kickstarter for the device to distribute those particles onto the hyper tablet. I present to you: the hyper stylus! Just like the hyper tablet it's made from the renewable resources wood, and it can even be equipped with advanced technology to remove the carbon particles without damaging the hyper tablet! If you back 200$ or more, you get to be one of the first people to get to buy the hyper remover accessory!
Of course, make sure to save up a little for our upcoming accessory, the hyper-straigtener, which will guide your hyper stylus to make lines that are so straight, they could have been drawn by a computer, and using the lightweight and durable material plastic, we can even make it transparent, that way, you can see your work on the hyper tablet underneath the hyper straightener. we already have plans to develop this device even further, into the hyper measurer, which can not only help you make your lines super straight, but it also uses hyper ink to display lines on the device to let you know exactly how long your line is!
MichaelKingsfordGray,
I was just born, last millisecond ago, so I just bought twelventy two.
@@pinselthefluf6070 Don't forget it has a port for plugging directly into your solar roadway for charging!
"Every one hates him"
See how cordell kelley copies top comments for attention
Come to think about it, bretharians would make awesome candidates for a Mars mission. Just saying.
I think sending them to Mars would definitely be preferable to having them here on Earth. Not to mention the benefit of all the bullshit they produce... it could be used as an additional fuel source for the mission.
Great idea! They could bring some flatearthers along to document the trip.
Perhaps North Korean leader Kim is a breatharian since he never has to use the bathroom. However the evidence suggests otherwise. Let's just say his gut holds more food than Thunderfoots.
Send them now. Or... sign them up now and send them to the Soylent Green factory.
@@Wallyworld30
More "digested food" == shit.
Gut == space most people use for their brain.
You forgot to account for the loss in brain mass from researching all those hyperloop videos over this period.
My doctor advised me not to diet, but to make minor adjustments to my eating habits little by little over time. It's worked for me. I'm down about 15 pounds since last October, and I don't feel like I've been depriving myself at all.
Well done. Keeping it up is the hardest thing to do. I know from personal experience. Good luck with your future!
As a believer in science, I came up with my own diet; lost 10Kg in 10 weeks, a friend does it right now, he lost 5 Kg in 3 weeks. (I did it without exercise). Not feeling hungry, 1000 calories a day... he wouldn't wanna hear about diet throughout his life, he wouldn't do it if he felt hungry all day...
Diet is the accumulation of all things an organism consumes. "Dieting" is just changing your diet, by changing eating habits the only way you lost weight is either more energy expedure or less consumption, in your case consumption et voila you dieted. 😅
Exactly what I've been doing myself, down 5kg (~10lbs) just by making little adjustments. Measuring what I'm eating and keeping track have also really helped, I've become a lot more aware of when I'm eating not out of hunger but out of boredom or just having food near. Plus I'm still splurging on occasional bottles of wine or fish and chips, I'm just being aware of how many calories that is and making up for it in other ways.
Good job 👍
Persistence is the devil in dieting. It is very easy to slip back into old habits. Congrats on your success, Phil.
It is basically a matter of habit, you are correct.
Once you get used to a new diet, its actually pretty hard to go back to your old one, even if your old diet involved eating the "good stuff".
What Thunderf00t talks about in this video, is true: When your body adjusts and gets used to the new diet, then going back to stuffing yourself with food is pretty hard.
I've estimated that I eat about 30% less than I used to, and not only did that bring my weight down to normal levels (not overweight) but also, I cannot (even if I try) eat as much as I used to.
That's why it's better to eat a bit less (like 100g per day) and keep doing it for several months.
It will become a new habit without too much hassle.
Most diets on the other hand, make you lose much more weight, in a short time (like several kilo's in 1 or 2 weeks). After that, you feel like you suffered enough and go back to your original intake or maybe even more to reward yourself for your austerity.
This causes the jojo effect.
The biggest obstacle is that you really start to miss pasta. But there's good news. You can make pasta with Zucchini noodles, and should definitely add a fatty cut of ground beef.
The big helper in that has always been to never take a diet you couldn't live with. A super hard core crash diet of nothing but carrots and vitamins might make you lose weight like crazy... but your not going to stick to it. Just like those weight loss meals that cost a fortune. No one is going to eat that for the rest of their life, so when their diet ends they have nothing to fall back on but their "normal meals" and thus gain it back.
For me I just looked at what ate, how many calories it had and what I could live without the easiest. For me it was soda, and to a lesser extent sugar in general. Soft drinks generally have 140-180 calories per can and you can easily drink several a day. 500 or more empty calories per day because you had 3-4 cans of Pepsi is a joke and an amazing way to cut back. Drinking nothing but water isn't easy at first but honestly you get used to it.
I was literally expecting a recording of your digestive sounds with some scientific explanation attached!! lmao
@@hamu_sando Ahhh, don't mind him. He's probably just upset because he invested in Litecoin back in mid December 2017. >:-)
If air was all you needed then hundreds of people would not die of hunger.
They would suffocate because all the air would already be eaten :/
You mean millions, if not billions
BlackDolphin90, people die of hunger because of bad air quality. Some air, unfortunately, is very low on prana....
You have to buy their special merch to not starve to death in a couple months. Oh, yeah, and lie about not eating, that's super important
Indeed.
Pretty much the advice my Dr. has provided for years. Eat less calories, and exercise more. It's not the knowledge that's lacking, it's simply the willpower to follow through.
I think breatharianism is actually an amazing lifestyle. With enough people following it, we'll be able to solve overpopulation
It turns out overpopulation is deceptive, it is mostly an artifact of an aging population. In fact, young people are breeding slower than ever. Did you know the average fecundity in Japan is 1.4. ONE POINT FOUR. At that rate, the population will go down by 30% every generation. And it's less than 2 in many first world countries, including USA. Overpopulation isn't actually a problem in the first world, it's only in the 3rd world shitholes that it is. And the #1 thing preventing overpopulation is...... feminism. It teaches women to hate men, and men to stay TF away from women.
I know you're just trying to be funny, but please get your head out of the asshole of Agenda 21 Georgia Guidestones, before you become so full of shit, the smell will never leave you.
@@medexamtoolsdotcom you are a fucking idiot
r/cursedcomments
I cannot express how much I love these types of videos from you. My wife finally got around to watching one with me, and it "happened" to be this one. I've been trying to get her to stop doing weird diets or celebrity diets for years now. One video... In one single video, you not only proved my point, which to be fair was yours exactly, and got her to concede to try a more normative and easy to budget diet plan of literally just eating a little less. Thank you. Truly. Thank you.
Been waiting for this video for a year or so! So much more information than I thought! Thank you thunderfoot for all the hard work!
Solar dieting ? :)
Or space x dieting
Hyperdietingloop ;)
_Thorium powered_ solar freaking dieting roadways.
Something like a waterseer, but one that makes food perhaps?
Is it hexagonal? Otherwise, forget it.
Huh, thanks for that. That'll help with calibration for my diet when I start in a month or so. Didn't realize the daily fluctuation was so severe.
Keep in mind that the first couple of weeks are the most turbulent, and the ones that are the hardest.
The important thing is to keep track of what you're eating, and how much calorie intake that is.
It doesnt even have to be exactly the same every time....
Ive done a rather more intense/extreme version of this, losing about 38kg in the last 6 months or so. It was more along the lines of starvation of solid food, alot of water and suplements so as to give the body what it needs aside from fat and sugar - which it obviously had to take from reserves. It worked well, coupled with alot more exercice than I did before. It´s fun to see this new video on the subject, as the initial ones you did a while ago were part of my inspiration for doing this - especially on the "how".
I have to agree whole heartedly : weight loss is a simple matter, if not an easy one. It depends solely on personal willingness and self discipline over an extended period of time and most people could do it - you know, unless some major health problems prevent exercice.
OMFG! Thank you Thunderf00t!!! I was forgetting about my gut capacity when working on weight loss, I couldn't figure out why the bloddy hell I was dieting yet having a daily flux of multiple lbs/kg. I understand why you weigh once or twice a day and graph it. This is an absolute game changer and I'm currently printing out a blank graph for my wall to start tracking my progress. Thanks for helping me understand this in real terms
So, Thunderf00t has mathematically proved he's only ever 3% full of shlt at any given time.
There's probably 10% truth to that.
Up to 3%, and I don't think all of it would be in a "shit" state.
he says nothing about removing carbs entirely & just doing a paleodiet. eating meat & greens exclusively will make you lose lots of weight & you dont even have to cut down on the amount.
@@judofright4206 what?
@@judofright4206 It was a confused "what?". I don't understand what your comment has to do with this guy's joke.
Everyone is different because of the nature of your metabolism and your appetite but for me it's easy to lose weight. A few months ago I used to be obese (BMI over 31) and all I did was eat only food with a low glycemic index(the only exception was 2 bananas a day) and walked over 5 miles a day. I lost 14 kilos in 2 months just like that.
That's a very efficient way. If you only eat low GI food then it really will get reduced to calories in vs calories out, because the lack of insulin in your blood will allow for fat to be released and consequently burned. (Well, assuming you also get some sleep and don't stress much.)
Metabolism is only one part of losing weight, it might be easier with higher metabolism but at the same time with a low metabolism you can still lose weight.
People aren't that different.
Metabolism rate between individuals are quite insignificant.
Equate metabolism to efficiency - it really doesn't vary that much between humans as we're all relatively as efficient as each other.
hay, thanx. im almost 60yrs old and a little (lot) over weight. this has given me something to think about as well as some useful info to work with. cheers, mate. and keep makin vids.
This is very good information. And a very good way of displaying it. I've dealt with weight issues for most of my life. And now, getting older, i see the weight starting to creep up again.
If you'll pardon the expression, this video is certainly food for thought. Thank you.
Congratulations! Maybe you can write up an article and send it to a major publication?
He'd get blocked, denied, arrested and ISIS beheaded because how dare he infringe on the chosen people's profits! He's anti-semitic !11! reeeEeeeEe
Not too bad of an idea actually. It'd be nice to have people appreciate thermodynamics by applying it.
99.9999% of people who read magazine are too dumb to understand science/statistics based approach
4:26
Do you mean *caloric* intake? "Calorific" intake sounds like something made up by a surfer to describe his new surfboard engine...
Dam i been watching you for like 3-4 years . keep up the good work!
I dont know how u keep coming up with these great vids (science based) out of no were.. good job
I always found it funny when people of a certain demographic say stuff like "I've lost half a pound this week" because it's a meaningless statement for the reason you allude to here - gut capacity and more specifically the time interval between taking a crap and weighing yourself to benefit from the instant "weight loss" that results.
CHL! Make some more videos please! Any subject; your direct, fact based analysis (well, and slightly snarky attitude towards ignorance), is always appreciated!
Half a pound is just a standard cup of tea!
Unless you're losing half-a-pound consistently every week, it's pretty meaningless.
@@nfijef Cheers dude, there is more on the way. It's been hectic for a while but I've got something on the go.
You mean real life supersedes entertaining the the masses on drool tube? Bollocks!HaHa, All good, love your stuff WHENEVER you get around to it, thank you:)
@@CoolHardLogic me after using the bathroom
Thank you for your hard and great work! Keep it up!
Now that was a perfect length video, excellent and really informative.
Wow man this is Epic! always loved ur videos. Huge motivation to enter the sciences.
In other words: eat less and exercise more and you will lose weight. Although, I have to admit, having that message expressed in a 10 minute scientific explanation with graphs was very satisfying.
Its not that you should simply eat smaller meals, but that you should physically eat less meals. Like 1 meal a day. Simply eating smaller meals will cause that gnawing hunger pain most report on their diets, and causes the rubberband effect. (A chemical in the stomach is responsible for the hunger feeling, and is typically absorbed by food or simply not produced if the stomach doesn't feel like it should be expecting to eat at that moment. Eating smaller meals leads to an imbalance where the chemical builds up overtime.)
Holy freaken thorium dieting!
This is exactly the video I wanted for my birthday... which is in about 11 months or so ^^. Keep up these videos about dieting through science!
These videos are very interesting! Keep them coming!
I have a very similar experience! I could eat anything and never put on a pound...up until about a year ago (which was 33 for me). I have been between 150 and 155 lbs since the beginning of high school. BUT over the past year I've noticed my weight slowly creeping up and I weighed myself at 162 lbs about a month ago, which makes me feel so depressed. I exercise and I don't eat really bad but now I have to make sure I exercise and make sure I watch EVERY god damn calorie. This will be how the rest of my life goes...which is so depressing. I'm back at 160 and hopefully I can lose 10 more lbs to get back to my target but it feels like I will never be able to maintain that unless I'm a calorie Nazi. :(
Kris that mass seems really low for an average adult male. How tall are you?
Erwin Rommel 5’10” and that weight is not low heh.
My BMI is currently 22.2.
Here is the info for my TARGET:
“Height: 5 feet, 10 inches
Weight: 150 pounds
Your BMI is 21.5, indicating your weight is in the Normal category for adults of your height.
For your height, a normal weight range would be from 129 to 174 pounds.”
Erwin Rommel I’m on the high side of normal. 10 more pounds and I’d be overweight.
Make life easy for yourself, stop counting calories, and completely cut out CARBS and CARB SUGARS/SUGARS! I literally would pile on weight if I ate 'regular' food that had flour and sugars in it. I literally have butter in my coffee, full fatty organic meats, veggies (that are low in carb/sugars), cream cheese, eggs, etc etc and still lose un needed fat while piling on muscle. Literally the easiest diet I've ever been on.
i count calories and lost 50 pounds last year. in march i weighed 180 lbs down to 130 a few months ago
Please do global warming / polar vortex next, thanks
What about it?
Thanks this is really useful, I've been trying to diet but always get discouraged when my weight fluctuates hopefully next time I will remember what I learnt here.
How are you not 1M yet? I can’t wait to see it!
the best way to lose weight is to stop eating whatever gets you most of the calories until you are within the recommended intake, its that simple and people still cannot understand it.
People don't want it to be simple. They want it to be hard, so they have an excuse for failure.
Nor does Thunderf00t. He thinks you can lose weight on a McDonalds diet, you just need smaller portions. People can put themselves through hell and ignore hunger for a few months but long term this won't work for the vast majority of people. He's lost 6kg, still has an awful body composition but think's he's qualified to give advice.
Jim Giant - Excellent parody of someone wanting weight loss to be hard and using it as an excuse for failure.
@Drunken Hobo Where did I say it was hard? I'm saying if you want to lose weight don't eat McDonalds, eat food which will fill you up with fewer calories. No credible dietitian will tell you "carry on eating complete shit, just eat less of it"
Fair enough, I thought you were going for the nonsense "it's impossible for most people to lose weight" argument that gets chucked about.
Will power doesn't really work either. It takes lifestyle changes. Plant foods are lower in calories and higher in "bulk" 400 calories of plants fills up your stomach setting off stretch receptors. 400 calories of say KFC doesn't fill it up half way. So you eat twice as much (now 800) to get those receptors to tell your brain you're full. Oil is terrible. 120 Cal per tbl. It's in a sense calorie restriction but it comes with the territory when your food is calorically dilute. You must eat more when eating mostly/only plant foods.
My favorite example: 1kg of tomatoes ~= 2 soup spoons of olive oil.
Praise be to broccoli.
Vegans are miss-steaken!
For me, dieting has come down to realizing that my eating was not primarily hunger based. Instead eating was (is) configured around time based reward entitlements.
Let’s acknowledge that eating is a pleasant, and therefore rewarding experience. At certain times of the day I am entitled to certain rewards. If I do not get those rewards in sufficient quantities, I feel deprived. I am not feeling deprived in the sense of starving or even particularly hungry... instead I feel deprived of the amount of reward I am entitled to on the schedule to which I am accustomed.
I do not eat more because I am at risk of starvation. I eat more because it is a self indulgent habit. And, imo, it helps to identify over eating as what it is: self indulgence, rather than a natural expression of the need for self sustenance.
Awesome as always my friend. I would like you to dive into the intermittent fasting protocol for eating (time restricted eating). A video from you on the subject would be epic.
"Man brags about his diet using thermodynamics and statistics for 10 minutes straight" :P
Looking at the title in my notifications, it looked like "Measuring the volume of my d..."
Great to have yah back boss
Remember that losing weight doesn't mean you are healthy. You also need to get all of your micronutrients (fe mg etc) and also macronutrients (protein fats and carbs). Losing weight is only a part of being healthy.
Perhaps you should write a weight loss book that focuses around the science of weight loss rather then fad diets. Maybe research the Psychology needed for the discipline to stick to it, might be an interesting alternative then hur dur "Eat only onions for two months! " diets.
that would probably be a terrible Idea
most People wouldn't understand it
It'd be the shortest book ever:
ΔU = Q - W
you have to also look at how nutirents arebstored, when fat is consumed, the role of different hormones such as insulin, some bacteria etf
You're not taking your expenditure into account. For example, if you reduce total caloric intake but consistently have plenty of insulin in your blood (for example if you eat many small meals per day) your fat storage cells won't release fat into the bloodstream, so you're starving your body of fat, so your rest metabolic rate slows down, making you feel weak, hungry, and cold (because your brown adipose tissue shuts down), and also causes gluconeogenesis from protein. OTOH studies have consistently shown that if you have normal caloric intake on some days and zero caloric intake on other days your rest metabolic rate stays high while your body uses your fat reserves on the fasting days.
So yes, it's calories in vs calories out, but depending on the rate and kind of calories in that calories out value will change and also drastically change the effect on your body.
Marcus Sundman calorie quality matters, hormones matter.
@@TylerMillsftw Exactly. Fat burning, as well as other metabolic processes, are heavily hormone-driven, and food, sleep, exercise, stress, etc. will affect those hormones. So while "calories in vs calories out" is factually correct it's almost irrelevant in practice since it ignores the factors which are actually relevant for the issue in question.
What about doing things like the keto diet or intermittent fasting?
@@Wesleym134 Periods of zero caloric intake is intermittent fasting. As long as your fasting period lasts past your glycogen stores emptying and intramuscular triglyceride depletion you're gonna burn fat. A ketogenic diet would help a lot there, since it will keep insulin levels low and glycogen stores low, leading to faster switching to burning stored fat sooner in your fasting period, and therefore more fat-burning per fasting time. (And it'll keep ghrelin production low, so you won't feel so hungry.)
If I end up expending more calories because I have stuffed my face with more greens, I don't mind. That's just more weight sliding off my waist. I always feel healthier when I am at a deficit.
Well done on another interesting video. Now I’ll see if I can do something about my 40 something weight gain!!!
Thanks for doing this one - really helped me a lot...
How tall are you Phil?
@@imnotpishedhic The data analysis continues. Haha
@Thunderfoot: *Here's hoping you put fasting(Intermittent and extended 5-7 day) to the test with your fancy new toy.*
Fascinating, I had not thought about it from this perspective!
Nice, thorough analysis! One thing I would add though, is that unlike fats and other calorie sources, carbohydrates replenish muscle glycogen and cause you to retain water. Because of this, cutting carbs appears to cause greater weight loss than cutting fat or general calories, especially in the short term. This is where we got the low carb diet crazes like Atkins and keto.
Keto ftw
Look into the ketogenic diet, it's a very interesting topic. There's been people who have gone months or more without eating, but they basically were really fat and burning that fat for fuel.
"What I've Learned" is the channel where I found out about it, I suggest you to check it out.
ElecDIY
Keto is a fad, pretty shit.
@@-ring-a-ding-my-dingaling Only if you ignore the actual science and a million or so years of evolution, then yeah, Ketogenic diets and ketosis is obviously a fad
@@gug1970
You mean the actual science that demonstrates the only dietary intervention to ever reverse atherosclerosis is a lipid elimination diet and the millions of years of evolution that culminated in the agricultural era of grain production, vital to the creation of modern society?
@@-ring-a-ding-my-dingaling So your argument that we've been eating grains for 10,000 years means that evolution was wrong and that we would not have had 'modern society' (whatever that means) without eating processed grass ? correlation is not causation. Apart from your unsourced assertion that something cures something, in what way does this disprove that ketosis (which is what a ketogenic diet aims to trigger) is required to actually burn body fat ? There are plenty of recent actual studies that shows this. if you're just going to spout random shit ( "keto is a fad, pretty shit"), please do it at someone else, i'm busy. If you think eating fat clogs your arteries (because you had half a conversation in your head and then decide to spout "atherosclerosis" at me) then there doesn't appear to actually be any evidence. Ancel Keys' lipid hypothesis was a fraud and has been shown up as such but hey, go argue with some experts on these matters if you like.. www.bmj.com/company/newsroom/popular-belief-that-saturated-fats-clog-up-arteries-plain-wrong-say-experts/
@@gug1970
jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/188274
pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1873/6a96956fdcda27c289186b587fa84cbb623f.pdf
www.hindawi.com/journals/cric/2015/978906/abs/
www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306987718309149
journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1559827615579180
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5466936/
books.google.com/books?hl=en&lr=&id=ocSMDQAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PA3&dq=esselstyn+atherosclerosis+reversal&ots=PS6adtsfb8&sig=eH5l1RR_Zlspuh4hFiGDU8oDxpA#v=onepage&q=esselstyn%20atherosclerosis%20reversal&f=false
academic.oup.com/nutritionreviews/article-abstract/67/5/255/1825526
Time to get reading, kiddo.
I've been doing the intermittent fasting protocol for a little over a year and i've lost 20kg without restricting calories. The idea behind that is related to what you said at the end of the video. When you are in a fasting state you burn all the sugars stores in your body and after some time, you start burning fat. So there is this guy on UA-cam that eats one meal a day, like 4000 calories each meal and he doesn't gain weight. Cheers my friend thanks for all the educational videos you rock.
DOCTOR CRENTIS SUPERSIZE ME
Anyone get this reference?
There is a quick fix. One meal a day diet. I'm losing 1lb a day. Lost 26kg so far. Was 96kg, now 70kg. 5-10% carbs (greens only), 20% protein and 70% fat. We're not talking rabbit food either, we're talking steak, bacon, fried mushrooms, avodacos etc
You're just going to gain that weight back once you're done. Just do it the normal way. 😃
@@pumpkin6429 lol no, just no. Do you think I'm going to go back to eating a pizza every day? Fuck that shit. I'm never going to allow myself to get fat again. groceries.asda.com/product/takeaway-pizza/chicago-town-limited-edition-takeaway-large-sticky-sweet-cola-bbq-stuffed-crust/1000040205139 these are almost irresistable. Almost.
I did it once. I was working at Domino's. Gg for me
That's just keto m8
@@pumpkin6429 "once you're done"
That's the real problem. Most people don't understand that a diet is something you have, not something you do. You'll never be "done".
Thank you so much thunder. I was actually able to use my height and metabolism to lose a ton of weight. I went from 244 in june to 214 in august. I really do appreciate that. As i was losing weight for the air force.
I know you won't see this but i really do want to you to see you helped someone bettered themselves.
I did exactly the same thing (I even made graphs in charted my theoretical progress vs. actual progress) about 10 years. I did 2 lbs per week for about 9 months keeping track of all of my activities and food intake. I went from 230 lbs to my current weight of 160 lbs. and I've kept it off for almost 10 years.
Super Size Me was what primarily started me down the road of skepticism. I realized he was basically lying throughout the video and that someone both could and would make an entire "documentary" with the intent to deceive with no desire at all to be informative or truthful; just a pre-determined agenda to promote.
Or just eat what Japan and Korea eat
No much different from what we eat
www.bbcgoodfood.com/howto/guide/why-japanese-diet-so-healthy@@MyDemon32
Or African children
Japan also taxes people who have too large waistbands. They already have an issue with an ageing population, they don't need the issues with an expanding population too.
@@drunkenhobo8020 Expanding population lol, I like that.
Awsome video. I can confirm everything here with solid anecdotal evidence. :) I went from 80kg to 65kg in about two years with watching my weight and calory intake. That's it. Everything else I did before to reduce my weight was a total failure, or a short-term small weight loss.
After watching your video series on losing weight, it put me into the right mindset to start my own diet. Managed about 12kgs in 8 months. It was kinda stupid how simple it was, I wasn't even eating "diet foods" rather just the right amount of junk food to keep loosing weight daily but always ended my day with a smile and a beer. I didn't add more exercise, already did the equivalent of roughly 1.5h of walking a day to commute, but even with that I never lost weight until I addressed the caloric intake. I was eating too much of the right stuff for 10 years, gaining roughly 2kgs a year when I should have been eating just enough of the bad stuff instead! Back to eating like a sensible person, but I have noticed that I don't eat as much as I did before the diet. and weight has been stable for about 6 months now. Figure I'll try and keep things stable for a year, and then try and reach my "ideal" weight by losing 12 more kgs.
A 50g Snickers bar, what year is this, 1993?
@Doug Culpepper hey DUMBASS the mass of chocolate bars candies and other products sold by weight has GONE DONE SIGNIFIGANTLY in recent decades.
How arrogant of you to assume someone is complaining that a 50g snack is small, when they are really saying the standard now (in canada anyway) is 30g.
So enjoy YOUR OVERSIZED CANDY BAR YOU ARROGANT FAT FUCK.
@@alecnolastname4362 I will eat both of you.
Fasting worked for me, I read the Fasting Cure by Upton Sinclair, then Dr. Jason Fungs work, fast way to lose and keep it off for good. I don't have the self control to calorie count/restrict, but only taking the bare essentials leaves me not hungry.
Edit: I am not talking about breatharianism, I drink water, salt, potassium, magnesium and a multivitamin.
I did the same but my will got only to day 5 due to the fact that I live in a household. I then took the weight back but decided to get to the gym, eat good and the right amount and I since then have lost 25lbs (~13kg) and I'm now halfway to my goal. My mother has found herself to want to loose weight but she has been for year in the "diet loop" of these programs that sell dumb stuff that dont makes you loose weight. Its really unfortunate but it just how it is.
Fasting is a fancy term for starving yourself. I never understood what’s so hard about just cutting your food completely, it’s so much easier than eating less. If you’re constantly hungry you get used to it and don’t feel it anymore, if you eat a little you’re gonna want more. Why don’t people understand this? I also fail to see the negative medical effects of burning fat through starvation, if you take your vitamins and minerals in pills there really isn’t anything you’re doing wrong.
@@JL-dance You never get used to being hungry, when you fast over time your body produces less ghrelin, a hormone that makes you feel hungry. It isn't that you get used to it, you biologically feel less hunger.
yo boi jonx I’m no expert, but you don’t just burn away fat while fasting. Your body needs protein in addition to vitamins and minerals, so starving yourself for extended periods of time will certainly have an effect on your muscles as your body will break them down back into useable amino acids.
@@jcampbell9340 That is true. However, so does other forms of caloric restriction. The worst thing you could do is to eat lots of small portions frequently. Then all your non-intake energy will come from muscles.
There are ways to limit muscle loss. The best is hGH production. Fasting in itself will cause radically higher spikes of hGH production. Exercise will also increase hGH production.
Furthermore, fasting will promote autophagy, which also helps reduce muscle loss, as well as countless other benefits.
From reading the title in my notification list ("measuring my digesting system" or something) I went to the video expecting you doing some kind of experiment like eating and drinking colored food or something. Then I was disappointed while watching the first half of the video thinking you might just do an theoretical estimation with some formula. The last part of the video I got amazed. The method and result were really interesting.
Great video!
I find it interesting how continouously collecting data about things (or your own body) really yields useful information.
Do colon cleansing next
Climate change deniers be like : your not losing wieght since your heavier then you were yesterday
@@Lyle-xc9pg nice arguement ..... So many points
@@palebluedot7435 im not against the idea of climate change, but there needs to be more reaserch and new ways of measurement.
@@Lyle-xc9pg yes they should continue research BUT the science is sound and the research up to this point is very solid
@@palebluedot7435 Sure continue to research. But only those who agree with other scientists get to keep doing research. Others are branded as heritics and climate change deniers.
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@@my3dviews not really the oil industry spends. Millions on that yet not a single paper by them ON THE SUBJECT has been approved by peer review.
When you deny peer review you need to activly disprove something they said and they can reply.
If you can disprove climate change oil companies will pay you millions
Um i guess scientist dont like being Rich they only want thousands not millions
Interesting stuff.... good work!
I use those box diet to great effect. The fact that you have control over portions makes it easy.
All you need is to go into ketosis, native Americans stayed in a ketosis diet their entire lives which is one of the reasons they were so healthy in comparison.
Demonic's Gaming Domain You sure it wasn’t because they had to struggle to survive?
Fuck off with the ketosis diet you fuckin white girl
Whisky is full of carbs.
Yeah, go ketosis - or in other words go low level acidoses- and enjoy renal failure and clogged arteries over the long term. Great idea. Just cut out glycogen, the primary energy source of all living organisms on this planet.
Or go with the scientific consensus and go for a more sensible diet full of fruits, vegetables, unsaturated fats and resistant fibrous starches, while limiting refined flours and sugars and saturated fats.
Native Americans ate corn you fucking numnuts
Reeeee he put weight in kg, it’s mass, not weight!
Oof
They use the same measurements, but in different contexts.
@@eltriplej6944 Not really. Technically weight measured in newtons.
It is, but in this case gravity isn't being considered, hence you are left with kg.
@@eltriplej6944 Which means it's mass not weight. That was the whole point of the original comment.
In my experience of weight loss I found the opposite. While the food cravings and the feeling of just wanting to give up are the strongest in the first week or two, you also see the biggest results. By simply being more active and cutting most sugars out of my diet (no more soda, candy etc) I lost about 5 pounds within the first month. Since then it's been a slower grind and the urge to just give up is much higher. I have since lost over 30lbs in the last year, but have more than 40 to go before I hit my medical "ideal weight".
As for weight fluctuations I find it most accurate to do it every day at the same time. Ideally in the morning after you void your body, but before you eat breakfast. That way your as empty as you can be naturally and you don't have to worry about a heavy meal sitting your stomach or your intestines being backed up. It's surprising how one trip to the bathroom can cause you to lose 2-5lbs depending on just how long you've held it.
Interesting video, watched it in my local library. Thanks for the fun new math, I haven't seen this calculated yet.
Adapt to deep ketosis, reduce insulin, fast for days at a time while maintaining Na and K concentrations. Hunger response blunted, hydration maintained, ketones burned. Less stressful than extended caloric restriction in my experience. Hormonal control is key. You cant beat thermodynamics, the breatharians are insane ;).
Burning ketones. I have a bad feeling about this.
Jesus fucking Christ, take your shit tier fad diet to the trash where it belongs
1800-ring-a-ding -my-dingaling just because it's a fad, does not mean that it doesn't work. I've seen a lot of truck drivers put on this diet lose tens to a hundred pounds without excerise.
@@fmccloud
Exercise isn't necessary to lose weight. Caloric deficit is what causes weight loss. All these people you know were doing was maintaining a calorie deficit, if you eat 3,000 kcals and do nothing, keto or no, you won't lose any weight. Add the fact that the ketogenic diet is often based on atherogenic and cancer causing foods and you have a terrible diet only popular because it encourages you to eat poorly.
1800-ring-a-ding -my-dingaling has anyone ever died from eating too much bacon, steak, eggs, or coconut oil? I'd want to know if anyone has
I enjoy your content thunder but I dont agree your 'McDonalds diet" was equivalent to SuperSizeMe and disagree when you make comparisons. You state that you ate McDees whenever possible. This is not the same as exclusively eating mcdees. You supplemented your diet, he (supposedly) didnt. Certainly the documentary had incentives to be entertaining and cater to people's biases to sell movies. But he clearly had a noticable change during the documentary that is indisputable. Dont make videos supporting weight loss and in the same video say McDonald's is fine. Its shit food full of salt.
Food is food. It all comes out the same shit.
I AM AUTISM
I DISAGREE
*VOMMITS RANDOM WORDS*
***BLATANT DISREGARD FOR REALITY***
There is actually nothing wrong with salt, your body actually WANTS salt.
@@bunkaaa8726 Yea', but not that much...
@@madacsg its heaps better then sugar I can tell you that much..
Me and my husban started dieting new years day. This is so helpful cuz this one month has been tough. I ate one donut the first week and one small slice of apple cake this last week of the month. Feb. Is her so now its time to be really strict and not slide back. We will be eating less and working out all this year. Plan breaks are our 3yr wedding anniversary and my Nov. Birthday. Fingera crossed!!!
This is the most interesting thing you've done in a long time, sir. It looks much better on you than gloatingly recapping an old debunking or few.
You are wrong about "starvation diets". when you fast you actually loose appetite, there is quite a bit of research done on this.
It's not that you lose appetite, but rather that when the body ramps up the fat burning it's getting quite a lot of energy from that and reduces the production of ghrelin, which is a hormone causing the feeling of hunger.
But our bodies are not thermodynamic engines. We cannot escape the laws of physics, but the problem is that people think that by doing fad diets they will lose fat weight; however, why would our bodies do that?
There are many other places from where we can lose weight: lose water weight, bone density, muscle mass, and finally the fat tissue, which is what we all want to shed off.
If the diet is one that allows fat to be released from the storage cells into the bloodstream and then get oxidized then that diet will probably make you lose fat if your caloric intake is low enough.
i've been looking into reducing bone density, I wanna fly like a bird
@@marcus3d "Probably", that is the problem. Our bodies have no programming to use fat and only fat whenever we stop consuming too much food.
I think that's the idea of the keto diet. You cut out most of the carbs so the body has to make it's own carbs from your fat intake. This ramps up your bodies ability to convert fat into energy, which as well directly helping you use up your fat also allowing you to power your body and especially your brain when your calorie intake is low.
@@PayneMaximus You misunderstood me. I'm not uncertain about it, but saying that several factors are involved here, so it also depends on what you eat and how you exercise, sleep, etc. Any diet that fulfills the basic criteria will probably work, and the ones that fill all criteria will certainly work.
Really interesting insights. This as well could be applied to other things
Weird and kinda cool! Well done :)
I watch your videos while I'm washing dishes I don't know why but it just helps
I'm just starting on a diet journey myself. I'm following this method, hopefully next year I'll be a bit lighter.
Two years ago when I turned 26 I started to get a little overweight and I literally did this. Calculated my caloric intake and compensated for it, except I lost 30 lbs in 3 months, after which I borderline struggled to maintain and continued losing.
Its like once I stopped eating as much, its almost like my stomach shrank and I physically felt like I could not eat more than I had been accustomed to during the "diet". Today eating a normal amount of food just feels normal. Eating a shit ton of food does not feel pleasant by any means.
My point of this that one can over do it. What became difficult in the first couple weeks ultimately became way too easy.
I think the MOST surprising thing I learned while dieting is that I can generally eat whatever I want, just in the appropriate amounts. Also that kitchen scales are your friends.
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As a super skinny guy I’d love it if you did an inverse type video about gaining weight (specifically muscle). Love the channel! Science ftw
I'm not overweight but I started keto/low carb as an experiment. I've stuck with it for 6 months now.
It's amazing how moody I would get in the past when I was running on carb intake and hadn't eaten in a 6 hours. Now I can be hungry and still have focus/energy, and avoiding unhealthy food feels effortless. I've stayed about the same weight but put on more muscle.
another classic thunderfoot video, well done !
I have never followed a diet, but sporting has helped me a lot...
_183cm (~6ft) male_
2009: ~70kg (~154lbs) (~3h/week tennis) (age 18)
2010: ~72kg (~159lbs) (~3h/week tennis)
2011: ~77kg (~170lbs) (couch potato)
2012: ~83kg (~183lbs) (couch potato)
2013: ~86kg (~190lbs) (couch potato)
2014: ~90kg (~198lbs) (couch potato)
2015: ~98kg (~216lbs)(couch potato)
2016: ~86kg (~190lbs) (~5h/week running)
2017: ~72kg (~159lbs) (+7h/week inline skating, bad knees for running so had to find another sport)
2018: ~75kg (~165lbs) (~5h/week inline skating)
2019: ~77kg (~170lbs) (~3h/ week inline skating, due to un-payed over-hours at work)
2020: ~74kg (~163lbs) (~6h/ week inline skating, changed workplace because my previous employer didn't respect my personal time) (age 29)
Just give it some time...
I've found that the most effective way for me to cut down on daily calories was to simply replace bread/rice/pasta/potatoes with tons of greens.
It sounds obvious but after sticking to it for a week it's pretty easy to keep up with.
The hardest part is when I play a lot of sport. Trying to find the balance of eating enough for my body to repair but not overdoing it
Keep up the good work, you'll save humanity one day.
It is interesting and very entertaining to see what happens if you apply a scientific attitude to someting I don't care really much about.Small things happening, great results - at least for your health.
To be honest.. persistence is the driving force in almost all changes. It's the same for exercise, for changes of habits, dealing with addiction, learning, meditation..
It's all about what you do and KEEP doing for a long period of time
Thundy, you're doing a great job myth-busting, calling out bullshit and pissing on poseurs. Great stuff.
Interesting stuff, TF! Must concede that metabolism is a bit trickier than that, however. You somewhat alluded to it when you mentioned your magnesium levels likely being low (4-6oz red meat once or twice a week will solve that).
I've attempted to explain it like this: you can deliver coal to the power plant. If you deliver more than is needed then it has to into storage (i.e., weight gain). Alternately, you can just burn more coal off (exercise). Thing is, once you've build those storage areas, the boss is going to want to keep them stocked up. So a good change would be to ensure that you are removing the storage, which can often be hidden as it is within the plant and not outside. This is where fasting rather than caloric restriction plays a substantial difference.
Excellent job once again!
Pretty much sums up what I've been learning for the past 6 months. The only way I've found that I can lose weight is by weighing myself regularly and tracking my calorie intake. I've been able to go from 320 lbs. to 250 lbs. today and I'm still going!